NCSE-CORE Online Practice Questions and Answers

A prospective customer has a requirement for Data-at-Rest-Encryption for all their data Which two license options are available to address this requirement? (Choose two)

A. Pro with the Encryption SKU

B. Ultimate

C. Pro

D. Starter with the Encryption SKU

A customer needs to increase availability in their Nutanix environment by enabling rack awareness. The current configuration consists of : 1 RF2 cluster consisting of 7 identical NX-3170 1U nodes , All Storage efficiencies are disabled , Which two changes should the systems engineer propose to meet the customer requirements ? (Choose two)

A. Add 1 additinal NX-3170 1U node.

B. Add 2 additional NX-3170 1U nodes.

C. Distribute nodes across 2 separate racks.

D. Distribute nodes across 3 separate racks.

An administrator is migrating ESXi VMs to a Nutanix AHV cluster. The VM data is available to the AHV system.

Which process must the administrator complete below AHV VMs can be create?

A. Import the VMs .vmx file using the Image Service

B. Rename the 璮lat.vmdk files for the VM based on the VM UUID

C. Import the VM's 璮lad.vmdk files using the Image Service

D. Import the VM's .nvram file using the Image Service

Which Prism Dashboard should be used to collect CPU/Memory and Disk I/O statistics over time?

A. Health B. Alerts

C. Hardware

D. Analysis

An administrator needs to report on any alerts generated by a Nutanix cluster that affected the cluster's availability over the past 10 days. Which method should be used to locate these events?

A. On the Health dashboard, use the Log Collector to export data based on time stamp.

B. Export the cluster event log to a CSV on the Alerts dashboard.

C. On the Alerts dashboard, filter based on Impact Type and the desired Time Range.

D. Configure an Alert Policy to generate an email with the data on the Health dashboard.

A prospects main goal are to replace their mainframe environment, cut their datacenter footprint, and improve disaster recovery for mission critical applications.

Which collection of documents should the SE use to show the prospect how Nutanix can help them reach their goals?

A. Nutanix Bible.

B. Knowledge Base Articles.

C. Case Studies.

D. Best Practices Guide.

A prospect is experiencing disk performance issues in their database environment. The prospect's databases currently run on physical servers and an iSCSI SAN with spinning disks. Which two Nutanix features should an SE discuss with this prospect to address their disk performance issues? (Choose two)

A. Snapshots

B. Data Locality

C. De-duplication

D. Erasure Coding

E. All Flash Nodes

A customer has successfully deployed Citrix XenDesktop on Nutanix,

They value the product but view Nutanix as a VDI appliance. The customer mentions a cloud initiative.

Which open-ended discovery question should the SE ask to start a conversation about expanding beyond VDI workloads?

A. Does your company use Microsoft Exchange?

B. Are you using Time Stream for the VDI workloads?

C. What is your process for evaluating new methodologies and technologies?

D. Have you reviewed additional features Nutanix like Calm or Beam yet?

A prospect is seeking a Nutanix solution for a mission critical application that needs to sustain two simultaneous node outages and prefers that the cluster be able to fully rebuild both data and metadata in the event hardware issues.

what is the minimum number of nodes required for the cluster?

A. 4

B. 5

C. 6

D. 7

An administrator is deploying several new application VMs to a Nutanix Cluster. The application is very transactional with a 28/72 random, read/write ratio. What should the administrator do?

A. Add one large SSD to each node and enable Flash Mode for the VMs.

B. Add a minimum of four virtual disks to each VM and aggregate them on guest OS level.

C. Add a minimum of four SSDs to each node to ensure all write go to the SSDs.

D. Add one large virtual disk to each VM and use it for all application data.